10.4 Grammar. Reported Speech.

Now get together with a partner, and write the exact words of the dialogue that were spoken between Giovanni and Desk Sergeant Reynolds, the policemen.

DESK SERGEANT REYNOLDS AND COLLEAGUE: Where is your transvestite boyfriend?

GIOVANNI: He’s not my boyfriend. People who are transvestites are often normal. Just because a man dresses up as a woman doesn’t automatically mean that he’s weird. He may be a very typical person.

DESK SERGEANT REYNOLDS AND COLLEAGUE: Shut up and get to the point! Have you seen him?

GIOVANNI: I don’t know where he’s gone and that’s why I’ve come here.

DESK SERGEANT REYNOLDS AND COLLEAGUE: We need to fill out a report. What is he called?

GIOVANNI: He’s called Dave.

DESK SERGEANT REYNOLDS AND COLLEAGUE: What sex is he? Male or Female?

GIOVANNI: I don’t know.

DESK SERGEANT REYNOLDS AND COLLEAGUE: Will you make a description?

GIOVANNI: Yes, I will. He has facial hair and could have grown a beard by now to disguise himself.

DESK SERGEANT REYNOLDS AND COLLEAGUE: What has he stolen from you? Could you help us make a photo-fit identity picture on the computer in order to be able to find him? We won’t be able to do it because the photo-fit programme is for a girl’s face, and the computer programme won’t allow us to put facial hair on the picture. We could use the men’s identi-kit programme, and we should add long hair to the picture afterwards, to make the person seem like a woman …this can’t be done either, because on the men’s programme, you can’t put make-up on the criminal’s face. Why don’t you draw a picture of Dave the transvestite, as this will be better than nothing? It is going to be difficult to get your wallet and money back, as there is so much petty crime in London, but I’ll do everything that I can to help.